Required and Supported Software ILIAS 10

1 Required Software Versions

The following software versions are required/supported for ILIAS Release 10. See also Dependencies in ILIAS 10.

• ILIAS 10 will support PHP 8.2 and 8.3.
• The support for PHP 8.0 and PHP 8.1 will be dropped!
• With ILIAS 10 developers can use PHP 8.2 features: https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-82.
• PHP Roadmap: https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php

1.1 PHP

Links for Developers

• PHP 8.2 and PHP 8.3 Backward Incompatible Changes:
  • https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration82.incompatible.php
  • https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration83.incompatible.php
• Outlook PHP > 8.3:
  • What is deprecated in PHP 8.2 (see: https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration82.deprecated.php), and PHP 8.3 (see: https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration83.deprecated.php), will cause errors in PHP > 8.3!
  • Such DEPRECATED issues MUST be fixed in ILIAS 10

1.2 PHPUnit

• 10.x (Roadmap: https://phpunit.de/supported-versions.html)

1.3 Composer

• Composer 2

1.4 DBMS

• MariaDB: 10.5 - 10.11
• MySQL:  >8.0.21

1.5 HTTP Server

• nginx: tba ...
• Apache: tba ...

1.6

• Java

• Open JDK Runtime 11, 17 or 21 LTS for certificate service and/or Lucene Search

1.7 npm

tba ...

1.8 NodeJS

• Supported: 20 (LTS), 21, 22 (LTS), 23
• Recommended: 22 (LTS)

1.9 PDF Generation

• tba ...

1.10 Other Software

• Ghostscript: 10.x
• MathJax (optional): 
  • Recommended: MathJax 3 via [Your ILIAS]/components/ILIAS/MathJax/resources/js/cdn-mathjax3-es5-tex-mml-chtml-safe.js
  • Additionally supported: MathJax 2 with safe mode: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mathjax@2.7.9/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML,Safe
• ImageMagick: 6.9.x (see info in Preview/README.md

1.11 Browsers

• We recommend contemporary browsers (supporting ES6, CSS3, HTML5).

2 Contact

• Author of the Request: Jansen, Michael [mjansen] on behalf of the ILIAS e.V. and the Technical Board ( tb [at] lists [dot] ilias [dot] de)

3 Funding

Currently no indication that funding will be needed.

• If you are a maintainer and see a need for funding, please adress the Technical Board.
• If you are a user/decision maker and interested in a particular software or software version being supported, please contact the Technical Board as well.

4 Discussion